Programme Manager Jobs
Role description:
We are seeking a highly motivated self-driven, and energetic individual to join our Fundraising Team as the Corporate Fundraising Officer. You will lead on fostering excellent working relationships with potential and existing corporate partners. You will need to work closely with the Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager to shape the plans required for the future.
The post holder will require a good knowledge of fundraising and considerable energy and enthusiasm that will inspire excellent relationships by increasing charity of the year partnerships and employee fundraising/giving. You will be target driven, proactive, a determined self-starter and thrive on working with a range of partners, encouraging them to choose Southampton Hospitals Charity as their preferred charity.
Main Responsibilities:
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Proactively source, research and approach new corporates in order to achieve annual income targets with a focus on charity of the year partnerships, payroll giving, employee fundraising/giving, peer to peer initiatives and marketing opportunities.
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Develop, implement, and sustain a dynamic corporate fundraising portfolio, maintaining a well-organised pipeline of funding opportunities.
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Devise and implement a long-term corporate fundraising strategy to cultivate and secure significant donations from new and existing supporters.
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Curate an excellent cultivation and stewardship journey in order to build and strengthen relationships and maximise income to meet agreed income targets.
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Attend and contribute to networking events, whilst actively organising events to foster relationships with new and existing corporate donors.
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Identify, pursue and make applications to corporate funding opportunities by aligning proposals with companies' ESG policies, emphasising shared values and potential partnerships.
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Develop creative fundraising campaigns and commercial sponsorship opportunities working with the events team to support with event costs.
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Work with the wider charity team to identify networks of prospective corporate partners and plan relationship building as most appropriate.
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Maintain precise and well-managed donor information in the organisation’s database to facilitate efficient tracking and follow-up, and ensure records are kept up to date in a timely, accurate and consistent manner.
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Coordinate and organise corporate volunteering activities for our corporate partners.
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Organise events for, and with corporate partners to enhance engagement and visibility.
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Support the fundraising team with social media content ideas that highlight our activities and showcase the impact of corporate engagement.
Other:
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To keep updated with guidance and best practice from the Fundraising Regulator and Chartered Institute of Fundraising.
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Work closely with hospital consultants and other individuals leading on approved projects to ensure a full understanding of the project that can be relayed back to both existing and potential corporate partners.
Person Specification:
Knowledge and experience -
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Excellent IT skills including using Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint as well as experience of administering and maintaining dedicated supporter CMS databases.
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Knowledge of a fundraising database and knowledge of fundraising regulations e.g. GDPR (Beacon used).
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Experience of collaborating with companies to encourage employee fundraising for charities.
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Ability to effectively work under pressure and manage conflicting priorities.
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Experience of working in corporate fundraising with a proven track record of at least 2 years’ experience.
Skills, abilities, and behaviours -
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Demonstrated ability to secure funds from new corporate partners, with experience in winning awards exceeding £10,000.
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Confident and skilled in delivering presentations to a diverse range of supporters, whether in groups, individually, in person, or remotely.
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Proven experience in crafting persuasive cases for support and donor updates that motivate giving.
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Excellent understanding of CSR, social value and employee engagement.
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Expertise in building and maintaining strong donor relationships to ensure sustained support.
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Strong writing skills for creating compelling cases for support and effectively presenting the organisation’s work to potential donors.
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Ability to develop, analyse, and interpret budgets and financial information.
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Proficient in using databases for fundraising performance analysis.
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Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with the ability to motivate and influence people.
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Ability to build personal, meaningful relationships with colleagues, customers, supporters, and donors.
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Ability to adapt quickly and be solutions focussed.
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Ability to prioritise and manage a demanding workload and work on several priorities at once.
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Ability to work as part of team and to use own initiative.
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Knowledge and experience of using a CRM database (we use Beacon)
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Excellent communication skills with an ability to prepare and deliver compelling presentations and engage with a wide range of audiences.
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Excellent written communication skills with an understanding of how to tailor communications for different audiences/contexts.
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Self-driven and results orientated with a positive outlook and clear focus on supporters.
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Willingness and flexibility to attend charity events and fundraising events led by our corporate partners, some of which may fall outside of usual office hours.
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A full UK driving license and access to a car.
We are a leading healthcare charity dedicated to enhancing patient care and experience at University Hospital Southampton
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We have a friendly and inclusive working environment here at Diabetes UK and are proud of our hybrid approach which allows great flexibility in the way that we work.
The role involves providing emotional support over the telephone and through our written platforms to people living with and affected by diabetes. The role involves proactively updating your knowledge of diabetes and key issues by reading relevant information updates. To be a team player, contributing to a positive, supportive environment and undertake any reasonable task as requested by a manager appropriate to the role.
Candidates will be able to communicate health information clearly and effectively to a wide range of audiences, with the aim to support customer queries to the best of your ability. You will be able to show resilience and manage the everyday pressures which can occur during a live service and prioritise your workload to meet customer satisfaction and service level agreements. You will be able to handle distressing calls in real-time by listening carefully and allowing the customers to feel safe in sharing with us. You will be confident and competent in using IT and different IT packages and programmes, with an openness and willingness to learn new IT systems, such as a new CRM.
Are you a Corporate Fundraising specialist who passionately believes that every childhood is worth fighting for?
If you're looking to develop your fundraising experience with a sector-leading team, then this Corporate Partnerships Manager role is the one for you.
Salary: £28,687 - £33,801
Contract: 2-year fixed-term contract, 35 hours FTE, would consider reduced hours (e.g. 4 days)
Benefits: 29 holidays (+ bank) increasing to 32 with 5 years' service, 7% employer pension
Location: North of England, ideally based 1 hour from either Manchester or Leeds
Culture: Healthy, happy and both life and family-friendly*
Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is what drives this national children's charity to get out there and bring in the funds needed to protect children and prevent abuse. As Corporate
Partnerships Manager across the North of England, you'll get more people involved in change that means everything.
What's the story?
You'll join one of the longest established, national corporate teams in the third sector, with a track record of working with some of the largest and most dynamic businesses in the country. It has delivered strategic partnerships, commercial activity, and all sizes of Charity of the Year programmes.
They are incredibly passionate and committed to professional development and helping individuals to achieve their career goals and aspirations, which is at the heart of the team ethos. Previous members of the team have gone on to progress their careers internally, as well as going onto success with other well-known organisations.
About you
This role is a lovely mix of account management and new business. You'll work with long standing corporate partners, as well as identifying and winning new corporate support through commercial, strategic opportunities and Charity of the Year partnerships. You'll take the lead and support on existing and future accounts, providing creative account management to maximise impact for partners.
How do I know I'm the right person?
- You're confident in building and maintaining relationships with existing supporters and generating new leads with cold and warm prospects.
- With the right support, you'll feel confident in talking about the charity to influence others and secure partnerships, in both a one-to-one environment and to large audiences.
- You approach tasks with an open and creative mind, working well independently and with others to create powerful propositions.
- You're organised, tenacious, new business focussed and ready for a challenge.
Working environment and benefits
This role is primarily homebased, with an expectation to travel freely across your designated region (travel expensed), plus occasional wider travel for team meetings and training. You'll be offered a flexible working arrangement to ensure a healthy work/life balance, which can include working from your local hub from time to time if greater team engagement is important to you.
*There are a variety of additional benefits including:
- Employee benefits and assistance programme
- Life assurance scheme
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and paternity leave, adoption leave and IVF leave
- A range of learning and development opportunities including apprenticeship opportunities
- A range of lived experience network groups including Black Workers Support Group, Thrive Network, Muslim Colleagues and Allies Group, Pride Group, the Family Network and Action 4 Deaf and Disabled as People Together.
This is a unique opportunity to join the UK's leading children's charity and work alongside a friendly, passionate and dedicated team.
If you are as excited by this opportunity as we are, then please get in touch with a copy of your CV to Amelia Lee at Charity People.
Deadline: 9am on Friday 6th December
Interviews: TBC and likely to be held online
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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A leading health charity are seeking an experienced Major Appeals Project Consultant to join their team on a temporary basis.
In this role, you will lead the planning and execution of high-profile fundraising appeals, collaborating with teams across fundraising, marketing, and clinical groups to ensure a strategic & cohesive approach. You’ll help build compelling cases for support and represent the charity to healthcare partners and stakeholders. With significant experience in developing appeals and a strong grasp of strategic project management, you’ll bring a collaborative and insightful approach to each initiative.
Key Responsibilities
- Demonstrated success in leading major fundraising campaigns and appeal development, preferably within a healthcare or nonprofit environment.
- Strong understanding of the healthcare sector, including relevant regulatory, political, and innovation landscapes (desirable).
- Knowledge of strategic risk management and experience in creating engagement partnerships to drive awareness and action.
Person Specification
- Skilled at establishing strong, influential relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities, with a talent for conveying complex ideas in a clear, persuasive way.
- Advanced problem-solving skills, with an aptitude for finding innovative solutions to challenges.
- A team player with a flexible approach and experience in cross-functional teamwork.
If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact with an innovative team, apply today!
To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
Are you ready to make a real difference with your expertise in Individual Giving?
Working for this national health charity as the Individual Giving & Insights Manager, you'll play a pivotal role within their Fundraising team, bringing to life a new global brand to build meaningful connections and fund lifechanging initiatives. This is a chance to work on a forward-thinking, insights led programme, launch innovative membership offerings, and help grow their Legacies programme all while benefiting from a collaborative and flexible working environment.
Job title: Individual Giving & Insights Manager
Charity type: Health charity
Salary: £39,000 to £40,400
Location: Hybrid working; London Office minimum one day per week
As this Individual Giving & Insights Manager, you will:
- Lead the Individual Giving programme worth £1.2m per year, working alongside their Individual Giving Officer to drive fundraising success.
- Develop and launch a new Membership product, designed to attract and retain connected supporters.
- Grow the Legacies programme in partnership with the Legacy Officer, enhancing supporter engagement.
- Craft supporter journeys that build deeper relationships, increase engagement, and boost income.
- Use data driven insights to refine targeting, optimise campaigns, and steer the success of their initiatives.
- Implement Innovation and test new approaches, particularly in cost effective digital channels, to secure sustainable growth for their cause.
What Makes You the Ideal Candidate?
- Strong experience in planning and executing direct marketing campaigns for supporter acquisition and retention.
- Skill in developing strategic, data driven supporter journeys using digital and email platforms.
- Proficiency in collaborating with both internal and external partners, including marketing agencies, to deliver effective campaigns.
- Experience in budget management and campaign evaluation, utilising key performance indicators (KPIs) for continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of current data legislation, especially GDPR, ensuring our approach respects privacy and ethical standards.
If you are ready to take on your next Individual Giving opportunity and this sounds like the idea step then we want to hear from you. Apply within.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
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Are you passionate about social justice and have a heart for young people?
You’re in the right place.
Citizen Church, launched in 2020, and is a Church in Wales church with three campuses in South Wales, and part of the Holy Trinity Brompton network.
Citizen’s vision is to play its part in the evangelisation of the nation, the revitalisation of the church and the transformation of society. Their mission is to break the stereotypes of church, to breach loneliness, to bring people home and to build the kingdom in Cardiff, Wales and beyond. Citizen has partnered with Resurgo to deliver the Spear programme in the heart of South Wales.
They are looking for a new Assistant Coach, to work alongside the Centre Manager, as part of the team at Citizen Church to deliver the Spear Programme, equipping and empowering unemployed 16–24 year olds to overcome barriers to employment and turn their lives around by moving into sustainable work or further education.
The important stuff
Salary: £21,500 p.a. pro rata for part-time role (£10,750)
Hours: Part time, 2.5 days per week, between 9.30am – 5.30pm, Tuesday – Thursday (with some flexibility and occasional evening or weekend work for events such as Spear Celebrations)
Location: Citizen Church, Cardiff
Closing date: Friday 13th December, 9am (We are interviewing on a rolling basis and might close the application early if we find the right candidate)
Application: Please click 'Quick Apply' to submit your application for this role.
Download the application pack below for more information.
Personal qualities we’re looking for
- An active Christian, able to personally represent the values and beliefs of Resurgo and Citizen Church
- A commitment to grow and learn spiritually and as a Christian leader, and a desire to learn and understand coaching techniques
- Passion for social justice and for working as part of the church to transform communities, especially supporting young people in employment or education
- High emotional intelligence, a sense of humour and fun!
- Confident communication and interpersonal skills, both over telephone and face to face; particularly a confidence in group facilitation
- An ambitious and self-motivated individual with the ability to prioritise workload, exercise initiative and work well under pressure.
Key Responsibilities
Spear Programme
- Lead group sessions of up to 10 young people, using coaching skills to transform their mindsets, and to maximise their potential in stepping into the world of work
- Prepare and deliver coaching sessions on a weekly basis and find creative ways of developing ongoing relationships with Spear Trainees. This includes running application workshops with past Trainees as well as maintaining records and reporting on statistics.
Relationship management
- Build and manage relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including referrers, local businesses, and other organisations
- You will support with job fairs, mock interview days and welcoming external visitors to the centre
Church Community
- The Spear Coach is directly employed by Citizen Church, meaning you are part of a vibrant church staff team and submerged in an exciting faith community
- Help to raise the profile of the Spear programme within Citizen Church and build a network of supporters and volunteers from the congregation
- Other ad hoc church responsibilities from time to time.
Please apply by submitting your CV and a Cover Letter
With young people, with organisations, for society.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you a dynamic individual who can develop, lead and grow our volunteer strategy, community engagement and marketing activity in Surrey? Do you thrive on working with people, helping to empower them to use their skills and experiences to help others in the community? Can you make a difference at a local Surrey charity?
Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey has been established for over 100 years. We enable and empower people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind, partially sighted, and deafblind to overcome barriers to be as independent as possible and thrive in their communities. We are a countywide charity based in Fetcham, near Leatherhead.
We are seeking a hard-working, driven and flexible individual to develop, lead and grow our volunteer and community engagement team and lead and collaborate with our marketing and communication team to raise awareness and increase engagement to grow our vital work.
Main duties include:
¨ Be an effective manager, line managing our Volunteer, Community Outreach and Marketing and Communications teams.
¨ Working with various partner organisations, building relations while exploring possible funding/joint working/event opportunities, and supporting our Outreach Team to make sure they are best placed to have the biggest impact for the people we enable and empower.
¨ In collaboration with the Marketing and Communications team, oversee the production of high quality communications to raise awareness, increase engagement and grow support for our vital work.
¨ Organise and facilitate our Breaking Down Barriers Workshops three times a year.
¨ Lead on key projects around Communications, Volunteering and Engagement, including:
- Co-produce a strategic volunteering plan for the team aligned to our strategy
- Review and develop the charity policies for volunteering and ensure volunteers are up to date with our relevant policies, legislative requirements and our needs and requirements
- Co-produce a strategic communications plan for the team, aligned to our strategy
- Review all current communications and revise annual marketing plans to strengthen our presence in the community
¨ Working with colleagues in other teams and departments, develop a strategic Community Engagement plan aligned to our strategy
¨ Ability to work flexibly according to the business need which may include evening and weekends
Skills and Qualifications:
- Direct experience of line managing a team of staff
- Relevant experience in the management of a volunteering programme, or extensive experience of directly managing volunteers with the ability to step up into this role
- Knowledge and understanding of volunteering best practice, strategy and policy
- Demonstrable experience of community engagement and building relationships with partner organisations
- Planning and organisational skills, including ability to plan, prioritise and deliver a complex workload
- Strong presentation skills, sufficient to deliver engaging training to staff and volunteers
- Strong communication skills – verbal and written, and ability to relate well to people from all backgrounds
- Experience in MS Office and confident in using a database
- Understanding of data protection requirements and confidentiality
- Able to champion the role and contribution of volunteers
- Ability to engage and influence colleagues
Competencies Required:
1. Strategic and Operational Management
Understand the five year Strategic Plan and objectives and how it contributes to our mission. Think ahead and develop, lead and grow a busy programme of recruitment and encouragement of volunteers to meet the needs of the charity. Develop innovative approaches to recruitment and service delivery and make recommendations and suggestions to senior managers. Implement a communications plan to improve and increase our visibility and awareness.
2. Inspiration
Create new roles and tasks for volunteers working with colleagues across the charity. Increase the potential of the Outreach team as they build relationships across the county. Develop imaginative and effective ways to raise our profile and reach new audiences. Value and motivate volunteers to help them provide quality services and support for the charity.
3. Making Things Happen
Plan resources effectively and manage any crises effectively within laid down policies. Demonstrate a consultative and informed approach to problem solving, using patience and understanding. Liaise with charity colleagues and senior managers, and externally with other groups.
4. Record keeping
The people we support are often vulnerable so it is essential that all volunteers have an appropriate Disclosure and Barring clearance, and that our records of all other relevant paperwork such as driving licence details and insurance is kept up to date and properly recorded.
5. Managing Change
The post holder must be open to new ways of working, adapt well to change and be able to feed back the impact of changes to volunteers, their team and to senior managers.
6. Personal Impact
Make a positive impression on people as a consequence of your personal style, abilities and credibility. Act with integrity and strive to develop the competencies required to meet organisational objectives and to adapt to changing and sometimes uncertain needs and circumstances.
7. Focus on the people we support
Volunteer services are built around the needs of the people we support and the needs of the charity. The post holder must maintain good relations with people we support, seek their views on our services, and respond effectively to their comments to recommend improvements. Encourage volunteers to constantly reflect on service standards and how to deliver effectively. Ensure all marketing and communications reflects our charity and how we want to be positioned in the community.
8. Use of Information Technology
Must be familiar with MS Office programmes and other relevant IT and use it proactively and effectively to do the job.
Full time annual leave entitlement is 28 days per annum. Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey complies with auto enrolment, we match contributions up to 6%. using the Pensions Trust. We offer training opportunities suitable for each role. We pay for annual flu vaccinations and for an eye test every two years with a contribution towards work related glasses.
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Engagement Manager
17.5 hours per week (fixed-term contract for 12 months)
Job Ref: V529
Hours/Days per week: 17.5 days per week – (Flexible days/hours)
Salary: £12,500 plus attractive employee benefits package
Start date: 6th January 2025
Location: Homebased with extensive travel across Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr
Closing date: 2nd December
Interview date and Location: 9th December - online
Volunteering Matters
Everyone in the UK should have the opportunity to thrive. So we bring people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues through the power of volunteering.
We partner with communities to overcome adversity, tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunity and making sure young people can lead change. And because we’re a national charity, we do this at scale, sharing our expertise and building partnerships to make an even bigger impact.
We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.
SAFE Valleys
SAFE Valleys is a pilot project that brings our award-winning SAFE project to Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff. Funded by the Moondance Foundation, SAFE (Safety Awareness for Everyone) is a project that empowers young people in a peer-led environment. It aims to improve the knowledge of topics relating to healthy relationships and sexual health, mate crime, and internet safety. It focuses on young people aged 16-35 with additional learning needs in addition to offering support to their families.
SAFE is facilitated with peer-led workshops. The aim of this project is to empower young people with additional learning needs to lead the conversation and education around their own relationships improving knowledge and awareness of these topics for our beneficiaries of this project.
Job purpose
The successful candidate will deliver a pilot project, taking our SAFE project into Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil. You’ll be responsible for forging new connections and seeking opportunities in the area to deliver our SAFE workshops, encouraging the participation of volunteers wherever possible. The role will involve workshop delivery as well as volunteer recruitment and management. Working alongside an existing colleague in Gwent, you’ll develop and consolidate our workshop materials, to ensure that they’re meeting the needs of the young people participating.
Key Duties:
1. Deliver SAFE workshops throughout the RCT and Merthyr Tydfil area, involving volunteers in delivery where possible.
2. Recruit, interview, induct, train and support volunteers.
3. Work closely with our SAFE project in Gwent to manage referrals into the project, updating on progress and plans in the process.
4. Develop and update workshop materials and activities to meet new challenges, in conjunction with SAFE colleagues in Gwent.
5. Management of the matching/placement of volunteers, risk assessing the volunteers and planned activities, and monitoring and supporting the match throughout.
6. Maintain good record keeping, ensuring that evidence and impact data is collected so that we can monitor progress against outcomes.
7. Promote the project through a range of techniques, instigating interest in volunteering and encouraging engagement.
8. Maintain effective relationships with volunteers, beneficiaries, colleagues and project partners.
9. Prepare reports to the Delivery Leader for Wales, based on agreed outputs and targets.
10. Risk assess all activities, ensuring that they are regularly reviewed and amended if circumstances change.
11. Contribute to joint working and teamwork across Volunteering Matters and the SAFE team.
Experience/Skills and attributes:
1. Knowledge of social care and/or third sector service provision, and the support networks and services available in Merthyr and RCT.
2. Experience of working with people with learning disabilities, and a good understanding of how best to support learning.
3. A calm and collected demeanour, with the ability to engage and support beneficiaries.
4. An experienced facilitator with the ability to engage in good conversation with beneficiaries, whilst actively assessing risks and solutions.
5. Experience working in partnership with other agencies.
6. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
7. Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise a demanding workload and work under pressure and to deadlines.
8. Ability to assess risk and carry out risk assessments.
9. Evidence of good administrative and IT skills and the ability to maintain project monitoring, administrative and financial records.
10. Understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
11. Understanding of and commitment to Data Protection and confidentiality.
Desirables:
Ability to speak Welsh or a willingness to learn.
Qualifications:
Relevant experience and values alignment are more important for this role than specific qualifications.
Location: This role is home-based and will involve extensive travel across Merthyr Tydfil and RCT. For this reason, we require the post holder to have a full driving licence with use of their own car. The postholders will require good internet access to enable remote working and a suitable home office space. IT equipment and infrastructure will be supplied.
Our Values & Way of Working:
In all that we do, we embrace a philosophy of ‘Freedom within a Framework’ and are guided by our values: Empowering, Inclusive, Compassionate, Positive & Straightforward.
This job description is intended to include the broad range of responsibilities and requirements of the post. It is neither exhaustive nor exclusive but while some variations will be expected, these will be at an appropriate level for the role.
Diversity & Inclusion
Volunteering Matters welcomes all applicants and are keen to ensure our team reflects the diversity of the UK and the communities we serve. We encourage applications from disabled, LGBT and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, along with candidates with any protected characteristics and from disadvantaged groups.
Disability Confident & Reasonable Adjustments:
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. Please provide evidence in your application, which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required in the “Experience/Skills” section of this advert. To be considered for a guaranteed interview or to discuss any reasonable adjustments during the process please contact us.
We have also committed to the following pledges which positively encompass our recruitment and selection processes and methodology: The Promise, Show The Salary, Salary History.
Benefits
Our employee benefits reflect our culture which is built on an approach of full flexibility with accountability, and designed to let you make your most positive contribution; we offer Flexible Working by Default (re hours & place of work), Unlimited Annual Leave, Employee Pension scheme, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Employee Assistance Programme, enhanced sick and family leave. We are also open to discuss job share applications.
GDPR Statement
If you apply for a role with us, we will retain your contact details including your name, address, email address and phone number to help us manage your application for up to 6 months. We will not use your personal data for any other purpose or share it with any third party. You can contact us at any point to update your personal information or ask us to delete it from our records.
We turn local knowledge into action by working with volunteers and partners across the UK to build stronger communities for all.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
A perfect remote-working part time role. Help make a positive & lasting difference to the lives of street connected children in Kolkata, India, by joining our small team in the UK as Communications & Marketing Manager. This is a home-based position, with the 21 hours spread across the week.
About The Hope Foundation for Street Children (HOPE UK)
The objective of HOPE UK is to raise awareness and funds for street-connected children and slum dwelling communities in Kolkata, India. We provide support to The Hope Kolkata Foundation which delivers 57 projects on the ground. HOPE UK was established in 2008, and over the past four years alone has raised over £1 million. HOPE UK also currently supports 595 street-connected children in Kolkata, whose education and general healthcare needs are sponsored by UK donors.
Providing the children in HOPE’s care with protection, healthcare, counselling, life skills, and education enables them enter into adulthood equipped and empowered to fulfil their potential and build healthy and happy lives with improved opportunities for their future. HOPE UK is a non-denominational, non-political humanitarian organisation.
HOPE’s vision is of “a world where it should never hurt to be a child"
The Role
Are you passionate about communication and marketing with lots of creative ideas? We’re looking for an experienced Communications & Marketing professional to diversify and grow our UK supporter base. You will be responsible for our communications and digital marketing strategy to drive and increase supporter engagement. Working remotely, you will be an integral part of a small team in the UK, reporting to the Head of Fundraising and collaborating with colleagues in India and Ireland.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively create captivating and impactful content to support UK fundraising and advocacy objectives to broaden HOPE UK’s online presence and brand awareness.
- To optimise and increase engagement across social media platforms by identifying relevant opportunities to engage with online influencers, patrons and ambassadors, third parties, and key UK supporters in order to raise awareness of HOPE UK’s activities and programmes in Kolkata.
- Scheduling and sharing content provided by HOPE Kolkata, HOPE UK’s Head of Fundraising, and third-party supporters, and adapting this content to create engaging posts across HOPE UK’s platforms.
- Monitoring and managing HOPE UK’s social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and setting up a new LinkedIn account).Responding and engaging with comments, as needed. The role requires flexibility to enable monitoring channels.
- Managing HOPE UK’s communications calendar and overseeing content to ensure a consistent tone and brand across all channels.
- Ensuring HOPE UK’s compliance with law [website] copyright and data protection.
Experience and Skills
·Experience working in a Communications & Marketing role within the charity sector, preferably an international children’s charity.
·Experience of successfully increasing supporter engagement online and analysing results.
·A sound understanding of SEO, web metrics, analytics, and keyword search.
·Knowledge of various social media channels and understanding of the granularity of audiences.
·Experience of using a range of multi-media tools (e.g., Canva, InDesign) to create engaging content to support fundraising campaigns, increase brand awareness, and help drive donations.
·Knowledge of maximising sponsored campaigns and creating targeted posts (notably, on LinkedIn).
·An aptitude to work both independently and as part of a small team who all work remotely.
·A sound knowledge of English (written and verbal).
·Copywriting experience would be beneficial.
·Good communication and networking skills and an ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders.
·An ability to think both creatively and strategically.
·Experience working with and managing Google Ads/GDN
·Experience of writing and pitching press releases an advantage.
·Knowledge of updating a website (WordPress and WooCommerce).
·Knowledge of a CRM (Beacon) and optimising data integrations and web forms
If you have the relevant skills and experience, along with a real passion for the work we do, we would love to hear from you. Upload your CV and a supporting statement (as an attachment) telling us why you want to work for HOPE UK, how you meet our criteria and what you can bring to the role. Please note we will not consider any applications without a detailed supporting statement.
Application deadline:Tuesday 10 December
First interviews:W/c 6 January (over Zoom)
Please note, we are a small team and only successful candidates will be contacted.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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As Training and Storytelling Coordinator, you will play a vital role in supporting IMIX’s work to build skills and amplify the voices of people with lived experience of the immigration system. You will work on our London Storytellers Network, a community of spokespeople who share their journeys to influence policy and public narratives. You will be line managed by our Media and Storyteller Manager.
In addition, you will help plan, organise, and deliver IMIX’s training and capacity-building programmes across the sector. This includes coordinating bespoke training sessions, managing logistics, producing newsletters, and supporting ambassador and peer-learning programmes.
We are looking for someone who is highly organised, people-focused, and motivated to make a difference. This role is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in project management, training delivery, and communications within a supportive and collaborative team.
Our vision is for a society which embraces people who move to the UK whether through migration or displacement
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Fauna & Flora is seeking a Finance Officer, Reporting & Systems to support the smooth running of Fauna & Flora’s finance and programme management systems and assist in their development. This role will prepare accurate and timely management accounts and other financial reports as well as assisting with the consolidation of the annual institutional budget.
You will have excellent numeracy skills and experience of working with financial accounting software. You will enjoy solving problems, with a meticulous eye for detail and a diligent and rigorous approach to work. You will have experience maintaining databases and feel confident working with large amounts of data.
You will be a good team player and enjoy working in a busy environment, with the ability to balance competing demands. With a proactive approach to your work, you will seek to add value and have opportunity to contribute your skills and expertise to Fauna & Flora’s growth and development.
In return, the role offers the opportunity to work for a ground-breaking organisation at the forefront of global conservation, with generous pension contribution, attractive annual leave allowance, life insurance and salary exchange schemes.
Our offices are located in The David Attenborough Building in central Cambridge, just a few minutes’ walk from glorious historic buildings and museums, the picturesque River Cam, the central market and shopping centre, and a host of cafés and restaurants.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa.
Please visit our website and download the job application pack below for further details on how to apply.
The closing date for applications is Sunday, 1 December 2024.
The Living Wage Foundation has an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team as a Research Manager. We are looking for an individual with quantitative research expertise and a desire to influence positive social change to join our Research Team. Previous experience in conducting research on the UK labour market is desirable but not essential. Reporting to the Senior Research Manager, the Research Manager will:
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Contribute to the design and management of our research programme on labour market conditions, low pay, in-work poverty, and insecure work.
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Conduct rigorous quantitative and qualitative research (mainly quantitative) to understand how existing working conditions such as low pay and insecure work - and potential improvements - affect workers, businesses, and society.
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Provide thought-leadership on areas relevant to LWF’s work, including on areas like low pay, insecure work and cost-of-living, and relevant policy developments.
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Communicate research findings verbally and in writing to influence employers to pay the real Living Wage, and to grow recognition and understanding of the Living Wage Foundation and the social policy issues it works on.
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Provide input into in-house research standards and quality assurance.
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Have direct line management responsibility for a researcher.
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Build relationships with external partners, including commissioning and managing research conducted by other organisations.
Living Wage Foundation
The Living Wage Foundation was launched in 2011 by Citizens UK to tackle in-work poverty and ensure that workers earn enough to live on and participate in family and community life. Citizens UK is the home of community organising with diverse civil society alliances set up to develop leaders to work on the issues that matter to them, such as the Living Wage. Other projects include Parent Action and Sponsor Refugees to add depth to the impact of Citizens UK’s work.
The Living Wage is a movement of businesses, organisations and people who believe that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay. The real Living Wage is an independently-calculated hourly rate based on the cost of living and announced each October ahead of Living Wage Week, our annual celebration of a growing network of over 15,000 Living Wage Employers.
The Living Wage Foundation celebrates employers that voluntarily choose to pay the real Living Wage through an accreditation scheme that recognises a long-term commitment to fair pay and has secured pay rises for 475,000 low paid workers. Over recent years, the Living Wage Foundation has built on the success of the real Living Wage by creating new responsible employment standards – Living Hours and Living Pension – for those employers who want to go further and provide the security workers need now and in the future.
The Living Wage Foundation is part of Citizens UK – a community organising charity which works with a broad base of institutions across the political spectrum. At the Living Wage Foundation, we take a deliberately broad-based approach and accredit all organisations who pay the real Living Wage to their directly and indirectly employed staff and are committed to tackling in work poverty. As a team we work across a range of industries and sectors to achieve this mission. We seek pragmatic coalitions in order to progress specific campaigns, and partnership around a particular issue such as Living Wage, does not imply an endorsement of broader purpose and policies.
Citizens UK
Citizens UK is the biggest, most diverse and most effective people-powered alliance of local communities working together for the common good. Our mission is to develop leaders, strengthen civic organisations and make change. Our 550 member communities are deeply rooted in their local areas and connect every day to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Through the method of community organising we enable people experiencing powerlessness to develop their leadership and come together with the power and strategy to make change.
This leads to hundreds of neighbourhood improvements - from zebra crossings outside primary schools to renovated public toilets in cemeteries. And it leads to some of the biggest campaign impacts in the UK, such as winning over £3 billion of wages through the UK Living Wage campaign, securing a legal cap on the cost of credit to control exploitative lending, and ending the detention of children for immigration purposes. We enable local campaigns to grow into large-scale social change projects such as the Living Wage Foundation, Parent Action and Sponsor Refugees that form an integral part of our theory of change. The most prominent of these is the rapidly growing Living Wage Foundation with a network of almost 15,000 accredited Living Wage Employers across the UK.
At Citizens UK, our organisers and project staff work within communities and ‘organise across difference’. There are various project roles and management, operational, communication, finance and HR roles that support the organisation and project staff and organisers to deliver on this mission and work. This work is rewarding and can be challenging; it requires a personal commitment to inclusion, a willingness to listen and disagree respectfully, and an interest in working in an organisation where our staff, member institutions and leaders will come from a diversity of backgrounds and often hold views that may be very different from our own. More information about how we operate within this context, and build trusted relationships across difference can be found on our website and is covered in induction. Onboarding and navigating this relational culture, and type of work, is supported by line managers and further training.
About the Application Process
We work within diverse communities bringing people together. In line with our Inclusion value, we would love to see applications from LGBTQIA+ people, people from racialised communities, people living with disabilities and people of faith, all to better represent the communities we work in. We want our employees to have the working conditions that allows them to fully participate, be able to be their best authentic selves and thrive doing so, and we have employee networks to support staff. Even if you don’t quite meet all the required criteria still consider applying, as we invest in our employees and support them to develop the skills and knowledge required to deliver their role.
For questions and reasonable adjustments regarding your application including information in a different format, or our recruitment process, please contact us.
Got any more questions?
If you would like further information on the role, the organisation, or our commitment to addressing under-representation and the development and progression of all colleagues, we would be happy to answer any questions.
We will be holding a webinar on Tuesday 26th November, 1-1.30pm where anyone can attend to find out more about the role, all enquiries welcome. In the past, candidates have found this a helpful space for understanding whether the role is right for them.
Please register for the webinar via the application form.
If you’d like to know more but cannot attend the webinar, please contact us.
Main Responsibilities
This role sits within the communications team. Working as a Research Manager for the Living Wage Foundation, your main responsibilities will include:
Strategy Development
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Contribute to the design and management of a research strategy for the Living Wage Foundation, effectively planning a timeline of future projects that combines to grow the Foundation’s influence, intelligence and impact.
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Work across the Foundation’s communications, programme and business development teams to understand and support research and intelligence needs around Living Wage accreditation and the diversification of the Foundation’s work.
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Support the Foundation’s communications team to embed data and research findings across traditional media, social media and website communications, including by identifying external hooks to showcase new or existing LWF Research.
Build and manage projects and achieve work targets effectively
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Design and deliver high-quality research projects within the Living Wage Foundation’s research programme, focusing on the labour market, low pay and in-work poverty.
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Conduct quantitative analysis of secondary datasets, including the Labour Force Survey, the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, the Family Resources Survey and Understanding Society.
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Commission, design and analyse primary polling of individuals and businesses.
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Commission and manage research conducted for the Foundation by external organisations.
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Conduct qualitative research, including interviews and focus groups with low-paid workers and employers.
Reputational and risk management
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Identify potential reputational risks related to research and proactively develop appropriate protocol, messages and standards to mitigate risks, including through appropriate quality assurance processes
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Design and conduct evaluations of the Foundation’s programmes and impact, and build the evidence base on the benefits of the Living Wage to workers, businesses and society.
Materials development and dissemination
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Managing individual reports and projects, with full ownership of the planning, methodology, report writing, dissemination and evaluation.
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Disseminate research findings through written reports, articles, blogs and presentations.
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Plan and react to regular data releases from the ONS relevant to low pay, labour markets and in-work poverty.
External Relationships
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Build and manage relationships with research organisations, academics, think tanks and employer networks.
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Identify and develop strategic partnerships with a range of stakeholders – including project partners and funders to support the Foundation’s work.
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Represent the Foundation at meetings and events, including speaking on panels and in roundtables on research- and policy-related issues.
Internal Relationships
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Support wider research and intelligence needs and projects across Citizens UK.
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Provide research support to colleagues where required, including by responding to data-requests and providing input on project-specific research activity where required.
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Work with Citizens UK community organisers, members and leaders to promote civic engagement with and ownership of the Living Wage campaign.
Learning and Expertise
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Become in-house expert on issues relevant to LWF’s diversification work.
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Monitor developments in public policy and develop appropriate proposals for what these mean for LWF’s work.
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Demonstrate ability to support members of the team in designing and delivering research outputs, including providing input on in house research standards.
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Support the training and induction of team members, and work collaboratively with the wider team to ensure that we are meeting the expectations of our network and stakeholders.
Generate income and resources
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Manage budgets, and identify opportunities to attract funding for research projects.
Person Specification
(D) Desirable, (E) Essential
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional qualification (D)
Experience
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Proven, comprehensive experience in a research or analytical role (E)
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Experience of building and managing successful relationships and partnerships with research organisations, funders, and other stakeholders (E)
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Experience of conducting or managing research related to the labour market, low pay or in-work poverty (D)
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Sound knowledge and understanding of public policy issues relating to the UK labour market, especially around low pay and insecure work (D)
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Experience of commissioning and overseeing research projects delivered by others, and/or applying for or delivering externally funded research (D)
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Experience of line management or mentoring junior staff in a professional setting (D)
Key skills and knowledge
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Excellent quantitative research skills, and knowledge of a range of quantitative research techniques (E)
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Knowledge of secondary datasets related to the labour market, such as the Labour Force Survey and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (E)
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Ability to work with Microsoft Excel, and at least one other statistical software package for analysis (e.g. SPSS, Stata, R or Python) (E)
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Excellent written and oral communication skills in a range of formats (e.g. briefings, reports, blogs and presentations) (E)
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Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and manage internal and external relationships (E)
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Ability to act on own initiative, to introduce and develop new projects and ideas (E)
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Understanding of the key drivers of in-work poverty in the UK and broader labour market dynamics (D)
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Qualitative research skills and experience using a range of techniques (D)
Personal qualities & values
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A proactive approach to all areas of work, with a ‘can do’ attitude and a flexible approach to work demands (E)
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Strong attention to detail, with the ability to sense check data and critically review findings outlined in research reports and briefings (E)
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A strong commitment to the Living Wage campaign and principles of Citizens UK (E)
Interviews: 9th & 10th December (TBC)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Academic and Membership Assistant
Contract: Part time, equivalent to 4 days/20 hrs per week.
Flexibility regarding working pattern, could be worked across 4-5 week days.
Contract: Permanent.
Salary: £23,198 pro rata (£29,000 full time equivalent)
Manager: Director of Psychotherapy. The role is assisting both Directors of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Location: Working hybrid with a combination of required presence at the centre in London and remote working. To be agreed with the Directors.
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
We are the Gestalt Centre, an established therapy not-for-profit organisation, supporting the mental and psychological well-being of individuals, groups and organisations. We are a dynamic charity that runs, accommodates and supports a number of counselling, psychotherapy, personal and professional development courses and a range of therapeutic practices that enhance mental and psychological wellbeing.
Gestalt is a life-changing approach to life, counselling and psychotherapy. It enables people to develop meaningful relationships, navigate change and lead fulfilling lives by creatively utilising their own resources, skills and strengths.
Our vision is a world were meaningful and fulfilling relationships lead to wellbeing and positive change in people’s lives
Our Values In Practice
Diversity, equality, inclusion and anti-discrimination: We value equity and inclusion and welcome diversity and difference in backgrounds, identities, cultures and voices. We also commit to anti-discriminatory action and encourage personal and collective awareness, reflection and learning. It is integral to who we are and how we work and study together.
Kindness and respect for each other and the space we cohabit. Our relationship with people who work, learn and access therapy at the centre starts from a place of respect and kindness. This way we create a space where we can show up, work and learn authentically and meaningfully. Feel seen, heard and included.
Collaboration and mutuality: We work and study together, collaboratively and with respect and appreciation for each other. Every person matters and so does the collective.
Community, awareness and personal responsibility: We are a community of staff, students, practitioners and clients; working, studying and accessing therapy at the centre. Individually and collectively, we’re responsible for our presence and behaviour. Also responsible for our community and the space we inhabit.
ABOUT THE JOB
Job Purpose
We’re looking for an exemplary administrative and people-oriented person who will be administratively supporting the two Faculty Leads: the Director of Psychotherapy and the Director of Counselling. An important role in the organisation with responsibilities towards the Leadership Team.
An important member of the office team, working in a welcoming and supportive environment with opportunities to learn and grow on the job.
Main areas of work and responsibility
- Academic and Personal Administration Support to the Faculty Directors of Psychotherapy and Counselling
- Coordinate and support projects and workstreams the Directors Lead on: including overseeing and managing the Counselling and Psychotherapy programmes and faculties, quality assurance and reporting to accrediting bodies and Gestalt Centre membership and accreditation.
- Provide administrative support and coordination of the Gestalt Centre membership and membership cycles. Including UKCP reaccreditation processes: coordinate membership renewals and reaccreditation processes from beginning to end, liaise with members, maintain systems and update the membership Directory. In association with the Director of Psychotherapy and the Director of Counselling
- This role resides in the wider course\academic admin team and as/when directed is expected to support/liaise with the admissions and registration team.
- Organise, co-ordinate and provide administrative support for meetings with faculty, Gestalt Centre colleagues, UKCP, BACP, the university and exam Boards, and other external meetings as required in relation to the academic, membership or regulatory functions of GC. In association with the Director of Psychotherapy and the Director of Counselling
- Prepare meetings set up, information and any required papers in advance. Organise dates, taking and sending out minutes and coordinate follow-up actions ensuring progress and completion.
- Prepare, format, edit and update communications, presentations and reports for internal and external audiences to a high standard – including for meetings with the Faculties, the Executive, UKCP, BACP or the university.
- Work closely with both Directors on the production and content of the various Professional Training Programme Handbooks, including managing version control and ensuring accurate information within and to time.
- Provide a professional first and secondary point of contact and as and when required liaise with the Directors to respond to emails or phone calls and other communications, including the preparation of acknowledgement responses and follow-on actions.
- Carry out responsibilities with due regard to the Gestalt Centre policies and procedures
- Wider office team support such as reception/admin cover or support with events – as and when occasionally required.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
You will be friendly, approachable, and collaborative with a positive flexible ‘can do’ attitude. We are a small, dynamic and busy organisation and as you’ll be part of the Gestalt Centre family, you’ll need to be able to work well with the rest of the team and independently, on your own initiative as and when needed. You’ll extend your friendly manner to our students and clients as excellent customer service would be important to you. You’d also have a good eye for detail and be good with numbers as you’d also be working with databases and finance.
The role is diverse and flexible with opportunities to learn and acquire new skills in a supportive environment.
Key Competencies and qualities
- Educated to degree level or equivalent with good English and Maths or equivalent
- Excellent organisation and planning skills and experience including balance competing demands; prioritise effectively; and effective ability to forward plan and work to tight deadlines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including conveying information clearly and adjusting approach, language and action to suit varying situations. Including some familiarity with communication utilising EDI considerations in relation to adult students and teaching staff.
- Confident, calm, diplomatic and confidential, with a mature, proactive, problem-solving and flexible approach to working in a dynamic busy setting.
- Excellent attention to detail and good with working with numbers and basic statistical data.
- Good working knowledge and experience of databases and online systems administration, including information and files management.
- Experience and able to work well with senior professionals and in a positive professional matter.
- Able to plan and organise own work effectively, managing interruptions and achieving good work performance in a busy setting.
- Reliable and collaborative approach to working with kindness and respect.
- Able to work with confidentiality protocols and expectations, and seeking guidance when needed, and in line with the Gestalt Centre policies and practice.
- Able to work effectively with others and on own initiative
- Experience working well with data protection, confidentiality, and safeguarding; and some understanding of applying ethical considerations
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and all Office applications; SharePoint and MS teams
- Commitment to Equal Opportunities and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, across the work of the role.
- Understanding and open minded about mental health, emotional and psychological wellbeing.
- Preferably experience working within an educational, training or therapy training setting
- Able to start as soon as possible.
To apply please forward to Archie Rotap your CV and a supporting statement of no more than 2 pages, outlining how you meet the job requirements and the value you’ll bring to it.
We look forward to hearing from you!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
ShareAction is an independent charity and an expert on responsible investment. We work to build a world where the financial system serves our planet and its people. We set ambitious standards for how financial institutions, through their investment decisions, can protect our planet and its people and campaign for this approach to become the norm. We convene shareholders to collectively push companies to tackle the climate crisis, protect nature, improve workers’ rights and shape healthier societies. In the UK and EU, we advocate for financial regulation that has society’s best interests at its core.
ShareAction’s Banking Standards team works towards holding banks accountable for their impact on people and planet, with a particular focus on climate change. We have a history of campaigning on key aspects of banks’ climate strategies – such as their emission reduction targets or fossil fuel policies – and we are gradually expanding our work to include other sustainability themes and banking regulation. Recently, we have achieved significant wins, such as contributing to HSBC becoming the world’s largest bank to cease financing for new oil and gas fields, Barclays dramatically reducing its oil sands financing, and mobilising investors to call on Societe Generale to set a renewable energy target.
Our campaign activities are rooted in rigorous analysis and facts. We produce a variety of research outputs supporting our engagement with banks, including:
- Investor briefings and research notes, reviewing commitments made by individual banks.
- Banking sector benchmarks, ranking European banks on their approach to climate change and other sustainability themes.
- Thematic reports and position papers, reviewing how the European banking sector aims to address specific issues and relevant sustainability standards.
What you’ll do
As a Research Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our banking survey. Through your work, you will have the opportunity to influence the banking sector’s approach to sustainability by highlighting areas of improvement and leading practices among Europe’s largest banks. In close collaboration with colleagues in the Banking Standards and Financial Sector Research teams, you will:
- Lead survey development: Oversee all aspects of our banking survey, from designing methodology and collecting and analysing data to producing engaging written outputs and data visualisations that summarise key findings. You will coordinate the project from start to finish and liaise with multiple stakeholders, ensuring that surveys remain consistent with other ShareAction benchmarks and align with our campaign priorities.
- Conduct thematic research: Undertake research and engage with internal and external subject matter experts to inform positions on themes covered in banking surveys, ensuring that surveys are based on robust criteria and reflect the latest market developments.
- Engage with key stakeholders: Design engaging presentations and present survey findings and recommendations to banks, investors, and other stakeholders. You will act as an internal and external spokesperson for the banking survey, with the support of the Communications team and members of the Banking team. Additionally, you will contribute to external consultations and coordinate data-sharing initiatives with partners.
- Contribute to monitoring, evaluation and learning: Support the development and implementation of a monitoring, evaluation, and learning strategy for our banking surveys to continuously enhance their impact, relevance, and delivery process.
- Support funding and resource development: Assist with funding bids to secure resources for the survey’s continued growth and impact. You will also be responsible for hiring and managing additional researchers when necessary.
What you’ll bring to the team
- Passionate about climate change, sustainability, and/or the role of the financial system in addressing these issues.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with a proven ability to manage competing demands while meeting deadlines.
- Experience in project management, including task delegation and consideration of project team workload.
- Excellent analytical skills with a proven ability to analyse complex quantitative and qualitative data, produce detailed reports, and summarise findings.
- Proven ability to manage relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office with a proven ability to manage data, produce research insights, and create data visualisations.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with a proven ability to convey complex information to a wide variety of audiences.
- A great team player.
It would also be great – but not essential – if you have:
- Experience in conducting surveys and/or carrying out qualitative or quantitative research on financial institutions.
- Strong understanding of climate change, biodiversity, human rights, and/or public health.
- Strong understanding of how private commercial banks operate and the products and services they offer to corporate and retail clients.
- Experience integrating innovative tools into research processes, particularly AI tools.
- Experience with the Salesforce CRM system.
- Experience developing and/or managing databases using Excel or other applications.
While we hope we’ll find someone with the majority of these skills and experience, we’re keen to hear from you even if you don’t have them all. We appreciate lots of skills are transferable, and we welcome opportunities to explore different ways of achieving our goals.
We are currently formalising our hybrid working policy. However, the Banking team meets in the office every Tuesday as we find this helps with team bonding and productivity. We expect candidates based in London to come into the office at least once a week every Tuesday and candidates based outside of London to come into the office at least twice a month on a Tuesday.
What we will do for you
We are a fast-paced organisation that has grown substantially over the past few years. We recognise that our people work hard to advocate for responsible investment and drive meaningful engagement with those who have the power to create a brighter future. Every day, they bring their expertise, passion and persistence to build a world where the financial system serves our people and planet. We want to ensure we provide the right environment for our colleagues to thrive, and we are committed to improving our employee offer where possible.
Currently, we are pleased to offer:
- A commitment to flexible working: over 60% of our employees have some sort of flexible working arrangement in place.
- Hybrid working: we are committed to supporting our staff to work in a way that suits their lifestyle and meets the requirements of their role.
- Internal promotion and development opportunities: we offer a range of ways to improve your skills and focus on what you love, including promotion, secondment, or sideways development opportunities. For some levels of roles, we also offer direct progression.
- The opportunity to help make a difference: we tackle some of the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges. We offer opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience in a friendly, flexible and supportive working environment.
- A unionised work environment: our staff have the opportunity to join the union and are supported by our recognised union, Unite. We regularly consult and negotiate with our employees on workplace matters ranging from working conditions to pay.
- Regular in-person meetings, including all-staff away days, retreats and directorate strategy days to create connected teams.
- 8% non-contributory pension, invested with NEST and their green funds.
- Healthcare cash plan with Westfield that gives you money back on your healthcare costs.
- Employee assistance programme: advice and support, lifestyle discounts and short-term counselling.
- 25 days’ annual leave (increasing with length of service) plus office closure at the end of the year, ensuring everyone gets time to switch off together.
- Enhanced family leave pay: up to 18 weeks paid at 90% for either parent.
- Enhanced sick pay starting at 5 weeks’ full pay from day 1.
- Season ticket loan and cycle-to-work scheme.
ShareAction values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and welcomes applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities, and we are working hard to provide an environment where all can bring their authentic selves to work. We know that some people won’t apply for a role unless they meet all the requirements listed in the job description. If this is the case for you, but you think you would excel in this role, we want to hear from you!
For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: 9.00 am on Monday 9th December 2024.
First-round interviews: Thursday 19th/Friday 20th December 2024 (online).
Second-round interviews: Early January 2025 (online).
To be considered for this post, you must be legally eligible to work in the UK; unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
Please be aware that when shortlisting we are really keen to get a sense of your unique voice and individual experience, especially if you are using generative AI tools as part of your drafting process.
At Ambitious about Autism, we're currently looking for a New Business Partner to join our team.
You'll work closely with the Head of Employability, Skills and Training within the National Services department to develop, shape and grow our offer. We are looking for a commercially minded individual who can build our income generation pathway within National Services.
We have been working with employers, schools and higher education institutes for several years in the development of our Employ Autism programme, providing training and consultancy for employers and education providers as well as paid work experience for autistic young people. We are at an exciting time where we have a mixture of existing offers (training and consultancy and Employ Autism) as well as new products ready to launch, including, Autism Confidence, e-learning and our Careers Education Framework.
You'll secure income from employers, providers and partners for our Employability and Training team through our Employ Autism programme, developing and implementing a sales plan to secure new long-term strategic partnerships with nationwide businesses.
We are looking for someone who has:
- Sales, new business and/or experience of managing multiple client relationships.
- A demonstrable track record of working successfully with businesses in a development capacity to acquire and maximise relationships.
- Good knowledge of the commercial sector and employability/training services.
- Excellent presentation skills to engage a range of internal/external stakeholders.
In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible, hybrid working and more!
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment pack on the link below.
If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential chat, please contact James Axford, Recruitment Officer.
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
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